The series is called Twin Peaks. "The Return" is just a marketing phrase (something like "Fight the Future" was for the first X-Files movie). Not a very imaginative one, even if it might signify Cooper's return to Twin Peaks. Lynch always calls it "new Twin Peaks". Semantics, but there you go.

My probably very wrong prediction is that Cooper will be back in Part 12 or 13 (beginning of the third act - Mark Frost is great when it comes to story structure). But I am enjoying the Dougie stuff a lot ever since Part 7. Naomi Watts' performance has a lot to do with it.

There's a theory, (and I realise that it and I are clutching at straws), that Audrey is in a psychiatric hospital and he is her counsellor, not husband, just playing along with her delusions. Hope this is true.

Whatever excuses fans want to come up with, this episode was mostly terrible, particularly the second half (the big scenes with Adarsha Palmer and Ben Thorne the positive exceptions). The long-awaited return of Audrey wasn't just long and awkward, it was poorly written and directed. No wonder Fenn was recently outspoken about her disapproval, Lynch and Frost torpedoed her. Hopefully the character is salvaged before the end.

And then we get to the roadhouse and does Audrey appear there despite saying she was going? No, but we get introduced to even more young people we have no reason to give a shit about. Remember the ones from a couple episodes ago? Me neither.

With only 7 hours left, I'm seriously doubting Lynch & Frost's ability to pull all these seemingly disparate characters and locations together. It's likely to end a confounding mess, it's just a question of how well the fanatics will swallow that pill.

Yeah - I get why people felt this episode was a let down, but if you chunked every movie you went to into 18 parts, you are bound to hate one of them.
I have been feeling concerned for a while that it will be hard to bring this all together, but I suppose we have 3x the length of Mulholland Drive to go, so it is by no means a lost cause